Re: [PATCH 0/2] Expose firmware paths via procfs

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Dimitris Papastamos
<dp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all, sorry missed the relevant CCs before.  This patch set
> adds support for exposing the firmware paths via procfs.  I've added
> an entry named /proc/fw_path which is a whitespace separated list
> of firmware paths.

Looks the paths are hard-coded in udev and mdev, which don't
export these paths to users , so I am wondering if users are interested
in the information.  But it is surely better to document the default
search paths.

Do you have some good use case about retrieving the info
at runtime?

>
> Once I have some time I hope to also send out a patch that allows
> the user to dynamically configure these paths.

IMO, kernel parameter should be an appropriate way to configure
the path, and the way of /proc or /sys may be a bit late.


Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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